The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18Dryden, John
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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18
Dryden, John
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Stillingfleet, Bishop, account of, xvii, 194
opinion of, on party names, x, 243
and Dryden, illiberality of, x, 251
controversy between, xvii, 187, i, 323
answer of to the Duchess of York’s paper, xvii, 194
Storm at the death of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 23
Story of Griselda, not invented by Petrarch, xi, 215
Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea, xii, 199
Stothard’s painting of Chaucer’s Pilgrims, xi, 217
Strong box of Charles II. extract from papers found in, x, 188
Stuart, James, vide Duke of Monmouth
Succession, Shaftesbury’s attempt to alter the, ix, 268
Sullen Lovers, extract from preface to, i, 260
Sunderland, Earl of, account of, vi, 231
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 231
Superiority of English to French plays, xv, 349
Suum Cuique, xv, 276
Swallows, application of the fable of the, x, 253
Swan, Owen, account of, xiii, 97
Swash-buckler, what, iii, 6
Swift’s attacks on Dryden, i, 374
the Virgil of Dryden, ib. 393
inscription for Sir R. Blackmore’s picture, viii, 445
account of the Hind and the Panther, x, 106
Synalepha, example of, xii, 57
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Talbot, Charles, vide Shrewsbury, Duke of
Tale of the Nun’s Priest, xi, 327
Wife of Bath, ib. 377
Sigismonda and Guiscardo, ib. 405
Tales from Chaucer, fables, xi, 193-399
of Chaucer modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci
Knightes Tale, xii, iii
Nonnes Preestes Tale, ib. liii
Floure and the Leafe, ib. lxviii
Wif of Bathes Tale, ib. lxxxii
Tamerlane, a tragedy, epilogue to, x, 356
Tarquin and Tullia, xv, 267
remarks on, ib. 266
Tasso’s imitation of the Iliad, xiii, 17
Jerusalem, translation of by Edward Fairfax, xi, 207
Taste, false, prevalence of in the age of James I. i, 9
in poetry, Sir William Davenant a restorer of, i, 48
Tate, Nahum, account of, ix, 315
assisted Dryden in the Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel, ib. 315
Taylor, John, the water-poet, account of, xv, 378
Te Deum, translation of by Dryden, i, 343
Tears of Amynta, a song, xi, 171
Tekeli, Count, insurrection of, x, 387
The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, a comedy, iii, 95
remarks on, ib. 97
preface to, ib. 99
prologue to, ib. 103
epilogue to, ib. 205
character of, i, 106
Terence, unity of time neglected by, xv, 315
Ternate, description of the island of, xvi, 166
Test-act, what it required, x, 187
particulars regarding, ib. 260
Theatre, prologues and epilogues sold at the door of the, x, 316
of Drury-Lane burnt, ib. 319
Theatrical amusements introduced into Scotland by the Duke of York,
x, 360
Theocritus, character of, xii, 278
translations from, ib. 285-307
idea of Cymon and Iphigenia, borrowed from, xi, 452
Theodore and Honoria, xi, 435
remarks on, ib. 433
Third Miscellany, appearance of, i, 378
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